Isako Isako
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
(Author)
Description
Isako Isako follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans to explore the chilling historical legacies of cultural trauma--internment, mass displacement and rampant racism--in the United States, and how it weaves together with current events.Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Alice James Books
Publish Date
September 04, 2018
Pages
100
Dimensions
6.9 X 8.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781938584947
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About the Author
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is a fourth-generation Japanese American and the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. She holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of Washington, and her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review, Best New Poets, and DISMANTLE: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. She was raised in Laos and Thailand and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reviews
"The personal pronoun I has brinks on all sides, over which you can fall and become anyone and no one. Isako Isako deeply explores these soaring and dangerous precipices of identity through the magnetic voice of a Japanese-American internment camp survivor who is both an individual and collective, a citizen and a prisoner, broken and healing. Mia Ayumi Malhotra has written a brilliant and searing debut." --Maria Hummel
